- 1Preface
- 2Book the First — The Middle Ages
- 3Chapter II — Lyrical Poetry — Fables, and Renard the Fox — Fabliaux…
- 4Chapter III — Didactic Literature — Sermons — History
- 5Chapter IV — Latest Mediæval Poets — The Drama
- 6Book the Second — The Sixteenth Century — Chapter I — Renaissance a…
- 7Chapter II — From the Pléiade to Montaigne
- 8Book the Third — The Seventeenth Century — Chapter I — Literary Fre…
- 9Chapter II — The French Academy — Philosophy (Descartes) — Religion…
- 10Chapter III — The Drama (Montchrestien to Corneille)
- 11Chapter IV — Society and Public Life in Letters
- 12Chapter V — Boileau and la Fontaine
- 13Chapter VI — Comedy and Tragedy — Molière — Racine
- 14Chapter VII — Bossuet and the Preachers — Fénelon
- 15Chapter VIII — Transition to the Eighteenth Century
- 16Book the Fourth — The Eighteenth Century — Chapter I — Memoirs and…
- 17Chapter II — Montesquieu — Vauvenargues — Voltaire
- 18Chapter III — Diderot and the Encyclopædia — Philosophers, Economis…
- 19Chapter IV — Rousseau — Beaumarchais — Bernardin de Saint-Pierre —…
- 20Book the Fifth — 1789-1850 — Chapter I — The Revolution and the Emp…
- 21Chapter II — The Conflict of Ideas
- 22Chapter III — Poetry of the Romantic School
- 23Chapter IV — The Novel
- 24Chapter V — History — Literary Criticism
- 25Bibliography
A History of French Literature
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